Course Descriptions
CSP 504
COMMUNITY COLLEGE ADMINISTRATION
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Graduate status.
Purposes, functions, and characteristics of the community/two-year college: diverse student populations; historical and philosophical evolution; organization and leadership; finance, governance, and management of academic and support services; appropriate research; enrollment management; relationship to the surrounding community.
CSP 590
INDEPENDENT STUDY
3, 0/0
Prerequisites: Graduate status and SPA program faculty member approval.
Involvement in scholarly and special project/program development.
CSP 594
WORKSHOP: MORAL REASONING AND HIGHER EDUCATION
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Graduate status
This course focuses on moral reasoning in adulthood and addresses critical-social challenges faced in professional practice. Students will learn action theories and explore social justice issues in relationship to college students and administration. They will reflect upon and integrate those theories and insights into practice. Action-based inquiry is used in the classroom to provide concrete communication tools for students to engage in dialogue with individuals who are different from them
CSP 616
AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Graduate status.
Evolution of American higher education: its history and philosophy; contemporary curriculum and its impact on the student; emergence of student affairs; campus constituencies; governance structures; creation of specialized colleges.
CSP 617
STUDENT DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Graduate status.
Assessing and meeting the needs of diverse student populations; theories of college student development and learning; college student characteristics, attributes, values, and learning styles; impact of the college experience on students; designing educational and programming interventions to directly enhance the student learning environment.
CSP 618
STUDENT PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Graduate status.
Philosophy, organization, and management of student services; evolution of specialized student affairs programs and their impact on institutional culture and campus ecology; "model" student affairs programs in four-year and two-year, public and private, religious and secular, large and small colleges and universities.
CSP 619
MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND LEADERSHIP IN HIGHER EDUCATION
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: Graduate status and CSP 618.
Management systems theory and practice in higher education and student affairs; organizational functioning; adaptation, and decline; personnel selection; motivation, and evaluation; authority and leadership. Students apply course concepts to institutional situations and problems faced in the day-to-day administration of services, programs, facilities, and staff.
CSP 620
PLANNING AND FINANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: Graduate status and CSP 618.
Fundamentals of college and university finance and economics; underlying decision support systems; institutional research in the policy-making and planning processes in higher education; strategic budgeting; resource allocation; collective bargaining; institutional planning; assessment; and research; new trends in grant development; alternative financing; fund-raising; external relations.
CSP 622
TECHNIQUES I: COUNSELING AND INTERVIEWING
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Graduate status.
Intentional interviewing, conflict resolution, and self-assessment for the helping professions: self-development of the student as a counselor; basic counseling skills appropriate for effective listening, assertion, supervising, and interviewing; individual and group facilitation and problem-solving skills.
CSP 623
TECHNIQUES II: THEORIES OF COUNSELING FOR A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY
3, 3/0
Major and evolving theories of counseling; training in counseling techniques as applied to a diverse student/client population; cultural and life-choice differences; issues of gender, age, and the needs of the learning and physically challenged; counseling interventions necessary to serve students/clients who are addicted or are experiencing loss, stress, indecision, alienation, intercultural conflict, or relationship abuse; counselor self-knowledge.
CSP 624
INTERNSHIP/PRACTICUM I
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Graduate status.
Administrative-based internship or supervised counseling practicum; seminar in contemporary issues/trends in college student personnel administration. All SPA majors are required to complete both internship/practicum courses with a total of 300 internship/ practicum hours in their fieldwork; a graduate assistantship in an administrative or counseling area that provides both a substantive experience and professional supervision may fulfill the administrative internship or counseling practicum requirement in CSP 624.
CSP 625
INTERNSHIP/PRACTICUM II
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: CSP 624.
Administrative-based internship or supervised counseling practicum; seminar in contemporary issues/trends in college student personnel administration; critical issues in society and higher education today, utilizing the case study method of instruction. All SPA majors are required to complete both internship/ practicum courses with a total of 300 internship/ practicum hours in their fieldwork; a graduate assistantship in an administrative or counseling area that provides both a substantive experience and professional supervision may fulfill the administrative internship or counseling practicum requirement in CSP 625.
CSP 630
GROUP COUNSELING
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Graduate status.
Group counseling theory, research, and practice; group dynamics; psychological processes operating in groups; leadership styles; therapeutic interventions and techniques as applied in various staff, team, and group settings; applications of theories and methods for effective group functioning and counseling leadership.
CSP 632
VOCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CAREER COUNSELING
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Graduate status.
Theories of career development and occupational decision making through the life span; career patterns and school-to-work transitions; administration of career information resources and specialized client services; computers and career-related assessment instruments for career counseling in educational and community settings.
CSP 650
STUDENT ASSESSMENT: TESTS AND MEASUREMENT
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Graduate status.
Basic appraisal techniques, including diagnostic interviewing, observational systems, rating scales, inventories, checklists, survey instruments, interactional analysis, and educational and psychological testing; descriptive statistical principles of student evaluation; uses of computers and tests in counseling, advisement, and research.
CSP 651
THE LAW AND HIGHER EDUCATION
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Graduate status.
College students and the law; academic freedom and First Amendment issues; trends in contemporary litigation; risk management; legislative, regulatory, and compliance issues; affirmative action, equal education and employment opportunity; real and simulated administrative situations; legal potentialities and implications for liability; ethical practice in serving student and institutional interests.
CSP 670
THE COLLEGE STUDENT MOVEMENT 1955–1975
3, 3/0
Overview of the history and linkages among the American college student, civil, and human rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s. This pedagogical perspective can be applied to American history, educational history, rhetorical studies, American higher education, women’s studies, African American and Latino studies, and other areas concerned with the social sciences and the humanities.
CSP 689
METHODS AND TECHNIQUES OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: SPA program major; CSP 650.
Background of educational research; selection and development of research problems; sources of information and data; methods of educational research; tools and techniques of educational research; collection, treatment, application, and interpretation of research data; organizing and writing a research report. Research techniques and methods emphasize higher education and student personnel administration application.
CSP 690
MASTER'S PROJECT
3, 3/0
A study undertaken by one or more individuals on a problem of special interest submitted in acceptable form according to directions given by the Education Foundations Department.
CSP 695
MASTER'S THESIS
6, 0/0
Individual investigation of an original problem, submitted in acceptable form according to directions given by the Graduate Studies and Research Office.
CSP 711
SEMINAR IN TECHNIQUES OF COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: CSP 622; instructor permission.
A continuation of counseling theories, processes, and techniques based on the traditions of therapeutic psychology: schools of psychoanalytic, behaviorist, cognitive, humanistic, and transpersonal psychology; current holistic trends in treatment methods and professional services; established and evolving techniques and theories of counseling and psychotherapy. Detailed focus on six to nine selected therapies.
